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Isn't the distinction that da Vinci put his brush to wood on the original Mona Lisa? How do you duplicate that?
by ketamine__ 6y ago
Isn't the distinction that da Vinci put his brush to wood on the original Mona Lisa? How do you duplicate that?
- detaro 6y agoRight, you can't. But you can make (in principle, again, a classic painting like the Mona Lisa is not the best example, it's more obvious for e.g. a print) an indistinguishable copy - and that copy does not have the distinction of da Vinci's touch and thus is not equal to the original. And similarly, you can define an equivalent of the "creators touch" for a digital file and agree with others that that's what makes it an original and valuable over a mere bit-identical copy. And the examples in between do the same to varying degrees, to show that the idea of not actually requiring a direct "touch" is not new in the Art world, with originality more treated as what in software we'd call a "license": rules the artist decided.